Friday, March 4, 2011
Post 3 2011.03.04
This chapter dealt with advertisements and rationale discussion. Society highly values products, especially ones that make our life easier. It also talked about repairing arguments. What does that really even mean? I want to talk about how advertisers are great at what they do because we fall for their tricks. Advertisers play on people who cannot comprehend the idea that his or her life will be fine without such a product. Advertisements are everywhere. We have just become so use to advertisements; we do not really notice them all around. The way the book says to question advertisers is to use personal experience. Advertisers do a good job of trying to convince the buyer that this product is genuine and works. They sometimes use "doctors" or experts in the field to persuade someone to buy the product. The point I am trying to convey is that just because advertisers use a good narrative in trying to convince someone to buy the products, it may or may not be of use.
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This is just like the example I used during the Content Fallacies about HydroxyCut. The only thing that confuses me is when there are certified doctors and physicians that are advertising a certain product, but people don’t believe it. This also represents another fallacy, mistaking the person for a claim. This means rejecting a claim because of the person who said it. The doctor in the HydroxyCut commercial was almost as buff as Hulk Hogan, advertising for a commercial that promotes rapid weight loss. He definitely had reason to mislead any consumer, willing to be more swayed in their comparison of HydroxyCut versus others.
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